Chapter 170: The Lieutenant from the Village

For a woman's family, the happiness of the family is nothing more than the whole family having enough food to live a life in peace. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

But when the government sent someone to say that the whole village was young and strong in the new army sequence in the Duhufu, the officers were stationed in the village to verify the number of young and strong physiques, and those who passed were recruited as soldiers, and the day after tomorrow they went to the county seat for reorganization and training.

After learning the news that afternoon, Zhang's whole person panicked, and it was certain that he would be recruited with the physical condition of the master. If you are so urgently recruited to the county seat, there must be a war!

There are only two kinds of people who can come back from the battlefield alive, one is lucky, and the other is strong in martial arts.

If the head of the family dies on the battlefield, the family will collapse. Zhang clearly remembers the hardships of the family after his father went to the battlefield and never came back.

The two wild boars added up to more than 500 catties, and more than 380 catties of flesh and bone were produced, and each of the six people divided more than 60 catties and some sewer (internal organs).

Zheng Cheng was carrying more than 70 catties of wild boar meat on his back and was exhausted and just opened the door, and his wife Zhang panicked and informed him that the government had come to recruit him as a soldier.

When they heard about this when they carried the wild boar back to the village, Zheng Cheng didn't care and said: "Isn't it just to be a soldier, you can still receive a reward if you win a battle, and it is not a bad thing to return the battle captured to yourself." ”

"You're in charge?" Zhang wiped his tears and cried: "If you die, how can we live?" and Min Niang and Lin Niang still don't know how they have been. ”

Zheng Cheng sighed and said: "How can I not know that the battlefield is dangerous, but the government comes to recruit soldiers, can I still escape?" After escaping this military service, can our family still live well in Anton? ”

At dawn the next day, the village leader took a few young men to knock on the bill to inform the families to gather in the square in the center of the village.

Zheng Jieran stood angrily on the earthen platform where the former village was talking, and there were five subordinates beside him.

After all the men, women and children in the village arrived, Zheng Jieran shouted at the top of his voice: "In order to protect most of the capital of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, all the young Chinese living in Anton who meet the physical fitness standards must respond to the Metropolitan Protectorate to serve in the military. I am the new commander of the Red Fengwei Protectorate of Andong Prefecture, and Gushan County is listed as a conscription county of the Red Fengwei, and I am specially ordered by General Cheng Xun to come to select qualified people as soldiers. Tomorrow, we will set off for the reorganization and training of the Chifengwei camp in Gushan County, and the training time is set for the annual agricultural slack season. During the service, the Metropolitan Protectorate gave the soldiers 100 yuan per month, including rations, weapons and armor, and their own clothes and quilts. If war breaks out, they will be dispatched by the Metropolitan Protectorate at any time......"

"Now, except for the young and strong who remain in the center of the square, the rest of the people are waiting to either side or leaving on their own, and anyone who is found to have deliberately escaped military service will be reduced to official slavery."

The old and young women and children in the village square separated from the young Zhuang by themselves, Zheng Jieran waved his hand, and the subordinates around him lined up the young Zhuang into three teams, and checked their physical condition to ask for their age. The order of the Imperial Protectorate was that only those under the age of 18 could serve in the military, and those who were too short and too thin were excluded.

After Zheng Jieran searched for the young people who were inspected, he was quite satisfied, and the more than 100 young people in this village did not have all the people who did not sign the requirements, which was enough to form a brigade.

After the conscription is over, he will be able to become a veritable captain of the Red Phoenix Guard, and Zheng Jieran is quite happy. Now he is only a lieutenant, and he has only twenty-eight officers under his command who also bear the title of captain to the head of the team.

All of them were blessed by the expansion of the army by Li Yu, the king of Yan, and they were drawn out of the original army and promoted by one level, and some were even promoted by two levels in a row. Zheng Jieran was promoted from captain to senior general of Anton.

The only thing that made their group of newly promoted officers unhappy was that their soldiers had to go to the conscription county designated by the Duhu Mansion and the military number to recruit soldiers, so Zheng Jieran had to personally lead the team to the village to recruit soldiers.

After the inspection, Zheng Jieran only selected 100 young men between the ages of 20 and 35 to be listed as soldiers, and the rest of the unselected remained in the village, and it was impossible to recruit all the young men in the village. If the quota is not satisfied, it is not too late to send someone to select the department to charge.

Zheng Cheng and Wang Liang and other ten people were temporarily appointed as gang commanders because they were tall and strong, and they led ten people to become low-level officers.

After the conscription was over, Zheng Jieran ordered the conscripts to go home and prepare the clothes and quilts they needed and the dry food on the road, settle down at home, and set off early tomorrow morning.

Zhang prepared the clothes and quilts and dry food for her husband in the room, wiping her tears silently, and as soon as the backbone of the family left, only her mother and mother were left, worried and scared.

Zheng Cheng looked at it and felt uncomfortable, and said with relief: "I asked the team today, there is no war in Anton, there is no need to go to the battlefield, I was just recruited to the county seat for training for more than a month, and I have two days off every ten days off to come back to visit your mother and son." There are still dozens of catties of wild boar at home, and you can eat it for a while after you smoke it. ”

"Hmm," Zhang replied with a low sob.

Wang Liang's family has several half-grown sons who can help the family work, and he doesn't worry about his family at all when he goes to the army. also directly became the head of the gang, and the whole person was so happy that he asked the mother-in-law at home to prepare a table of good dishes, and called several neighbors to the house for a celebration banquet.

Hooked Zheng Cheng's shoulder and said heartily: "Brother Zheng, don't worry, I have instructed my boys to take care of your family and your mother during our time as soldiers." ”

"Thank you, Brother Wang......" Zheng Cheng said gratefully.

"Brother Zheng, don't say such kind words between our neighbors, we have to support each other in the army. Especially on the battlefield, without a good brother, it will be fatal. ”

"Brother Wang is right, good brothers can only survive longer by supporting each other on the battlefield, and I will do it first, brother."

"Okay" Wang Liang patted the table and said, picked up the wine jar and served it to Zheng Chengman.

The wine is a rice wine made by Wang Liang who sneaked into the village Zheng's house at night and stole the grain, and when he drank with Zheng Cheng, he did not forget to scold the village who was full of private naan.

As soon as the day dawned, after Zheng Jieran counted the number of people, he led the 100 people collected to leave the village and go to Gushan County.

The young men turned around and waved goodbye to their families!

The same scene occurred in dozens of prefectures and counties in Andong, where a group of young and strong troops led by newly organized guards and army officers left their hometowns and gathered in the newly built military camps in the local county seats.

When Zheng Jieran returned to Gushan County, the team behind him numbered more than 800 people, and the number of people led by another lieutenant was more than 1,300.

Not long after it was built, the Chifengwei camp only had a large open space and a bunch of military tents that had not yet been set up.

Cheng Wuzhong, who was a general, had just returned from recruiting troops abroad, and after inspecting the qualifications of the soldiers recruited by the captains and captains, he returned to his big tent and convened a meeting of the generals.

"First of all, everyone celebrates, our Chifengwei has finally been formed, and it is no longer a bare-bones general with a bunch of officers and no soldiers."

"Hahaha......" the generals laughed.

"Secondly, it is to organize the soldiers to set up this big battalion well and train quickly, so that the army can be trained in a good way in January, and if it can be pulled out for training, it will become a strong army by the end of this year, which will impress others."

"The general will put a hundred hearts, and we will devote all our efforts to training the sergeants, and when the war with Silla breaks out, our army will definitely make a blockbuster on the battlefield, so that the friendly troops will look at each other."

"Hahaha! Ning Duwei was confident, which made Ben General quite pleased. As long as all the generals work together, Chi Fengwei will become a strong force in the hands of His Royal Highness King Yan! ”

Cheng Wuzhong laughed and said, full of pride in his chest, and he couldn't wait to immediately order the whole army to carry out training and train Chifengwei into an iron army that can fight tough battles as soon as possible. Cheng is like his father Cheng Mingzhen, a famous general, so that the world can boast of a tiger father without a dog, and his Cheng family has three generals in two generations.

It is also to prove to the veterans under the command of King Yan who doubt his ability that he Cheng Wuzhong is not a gentleman who lives in the shadow of his father's generation, and he is not just reused by his relationship with King Yan.

Since Li Yu launched the military reserve plan, he has vigorously promoted his friends Cheng Wuzhong, Li Jingzhen, Tang Jianzhen, Yang Shihong and others who followed him to Andong at the beginning of the year to become high-ranking positions such as generals and captains. It has aroused the criticism of many generals in the army who are not members of the Hongmeng Society and have risen by virtue of military merits.

This made Cheng Wuzhong and the others very unhappy, and they often gathered together to ridicule those who criticized them, but they had already fought under Li Yu. After they train the army under their command into an army, let these people see what it means to be a general.